Capillipedium kwashotense (Hayata) C. C. Hsu

This nearly endemic species is apparently confined to the eastern coast of Taiwan and a few offshore islands, where it is locally abundant and used for forage. It can withstand salt water.

Perennial, rhizomatous. Culms solitary or tufted, hard, 15–30 cm tall, ca. 1 mm in diam., much branched above base, nodes glabrous. Leaf sheaths glabrous; leaf blades linear-lanceolate, 6–11 × 0.3–0.5 cm, glabrous, long tubercle-based bristles above ligule, apex setaceously acuminate; ligule ca. 1 mm. Panicle small, elliptic in outline, 4–8 cm; branches simple or little branched; racemes composed of 3–4 spikelet pairs below the terminal triad, straw-colored; rachis internodes and pedicels long ciliate. Sessile spikelet 3–3.8 mm; lower glume narrowly lanceolate-oblong, back 5–7-veined, flat, not glossy, scaberulous on veins, margins keeled and scabrid above middle, apex acute or bidentate; upper glume scabrid on upper keel; awn of upper lemma 1–1.6 cm. Pedicelled spikelet resembling the sessile, staminate. Fl. and fr. autumn. 2n = 40*.

Cliffs and slopes near the sea. Taiwan [Japan (Iriomote Island in S Ryukyu Islands)].

Andropogon kwashotensis Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formosan. 7: 80. 1918; Bothriochloa kwashotensis (Hayata) Ohwi.

Capillipedium kwashotense là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (Hayata) C.C.Hsu mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1962.

绿岛细柄草（学名：Capillipedium kwashotensis）为禾本科细柄草属下的一个种。